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Historical Event on 4/17/1999
The Vajpayee Government resigns after it loses the confidence vote in the Lok Sabha by one vote - 269 to 270.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/3/1916 | Banaras Hindu University was opened under the guidance of Madan Mohan Malaviya. |
| 7/19/1949 | Raja of Tehri Garhwal announces merger with Indian Union. |
| 10/23/1959 | Chinese military confrontation with India in Aksai Chin killed 17 Indian soldiers in a clash on the Kashmir border. |
| 8/15/1990 | India successfully test fires 'Akash', an advanced medium range surface to air missile. |
| 9/27/1972 | Shri Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan, prolific author and first librarian of the University of Madras, passed away at the age of 80 at Bangalore. |
| 6/8/1998 | Sani Abacha, 54, Nigerian President, died in Abuja of heart attack. |
| 6/30/1930 | George Fernandes, worker's leader and politician, was born. |
| 2/23/1994 | India rebuts Pak charges on Kashmir in the 53-nation UN Commission on Human Rights. |
| 4/22/1992 | IAF in response to a recommendation by Secretary General, the Security Council adopted resolution No. 751 (1992) by which it established UNOSOM for handling situation which had deteriorated to an extent where death and destruction forced hundreds of thousands of civilians to flee their homes and causing need for emergency humanitarian assistance. |
| 1/8/1993 | FERA restrictions removed, resident Indians allowed to keep as much as $500. |
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